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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

oatmeal quilt and retreat signup deadline

I started yet another quilt....the third start in one week's time. Sheesh! I'm using my neutral scraps and sewing them together using the slab technique, as shown in my book Sunday Morning Quilts. (yay!!!) I bet I run out of steam on this project before I run out of scraps! :)

On another note....

If you are interested in the Mother's Day Quilt Retreat, in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, there are still spots available. The deadline for signing up is March 28, so in one week from today. It's only $250 for the entire weekend, including meals, lodging and the classes. I will be teaching my machine quilting sampler class, which covers free motion quilting, quilting with a walking foot and a quilt as you go technique. I hope you can join me there! You can read all the details here. Feel free to email me with any questions you may have.

Oh my! the retreat is actually near me!! I had no idea you lived even in the same region of the country as me, let alone that close! (well, assuming you live somewhere close to the retreat! Unfortunately my little baby is too little to leave overnight, but this does sound like fun!! (the other hard part, I suppose, would be that I do all my sewing and quilting on a 1953 Pfaff in a cabinet... way too heavy to bring somewhere for a retreat. :(

I've been trying to spend less time reading craft books and blogs, and more time actually crafting... But this 'slab technique' looks and sounds interesting. Is it an improv method? Your book might have to move from my wishlist to my basket...

Is Terri going to be at the retreat. If so, I can't begin to say how, um, what's a nice word...envious I am!Your oatmeal quilt is going to be fantastic. I have scads of neutrals and have always wanted to do a quilt like this.